Midweek update

Kate Dacey posts her picks for the best manga of 2010 at The Manga Critic.

David Welsh looks at this week’s new manga at The Manga Curmudgeon.

Melinda Beasi looks at the month to come in her latest Manhwa Monday post, and she also recommends her pick of the week.

Esosa Osamwonyi looks back at a decade of shounen manga and anime at iSugoi.

Linda Thai continues her interview with Tokyopop CEO Stu Levy at Something Deeper.

David Welsh winds up the December Manga Movable Feast at Precocious Curmudgeon. The next Manga Movable Feast will be hosted by Manga Report in January, and the main dish will be Karakuri Odette.

Daniella Orihuela-Gruber is looking for guest bloggers to help out at All About Manga while she is out of town.

News from Japan: ANN reports that Vagabond is still on hiatus; creator Takehiko Inoue initially took time off because of his health, which seems to be fine, but he just isn’t that into it any more. Tokuma Shoten will publish two manga by the late anime director Satoshi Kon.

Reviews: Carlo Santos critiques Ayako, K-ON!, and everything in between in his latest Right Turn Only!! column at ANN. Ash Brown looks over a week’s worth of manga reading at Experiments in Manga. And Soul Eater Not!, a new Soul Eater series, will start running in Shonen Gangan magazine in January.

Kristin on Ayako (Comic Attack)
Karen Maeda on vols. 1-3 of Black Gate (omnibus edition) (Sequential Tart)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 11 of Black God (Kuriousity)
Erica Friedman on vol. 2 of Comic Lily Plus (Okazu)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 13 of Gakuen Alice (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Julie Opipari on vols. 4/5 of Goong (omnibus edition) (Manga Manaic Cafe)
Erica Friedman on Hoshikawa Ginza Yon-choume (Okazu)
Julie Opipari on vol. 4 of Jack Frost (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Andre on vol. 16 of Inubaka – Crazy for Dogs (Kuriousity)
Todd Douglass on vol. 1 of Kurozakuro (Anime Maki)
Zack Davisson on vol. 4 of Ooku: The Inner Chamber (Manga Life)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 6/7 of Psycho Busters (omnibus edition) (I Reads You)
Nick Smith on vol. 1 of Sasameke (ICv2)
Kate O’Neil on vol. 8 of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Mania.com)
Grant Goodman on vol. 4 of Soul Eater (Comics Village)
Theron Martin on vol. 3 of Spice & Wolf (ANN)
Dave Ferraro on vol. 1 of The Story of Saiunkoku (Comics-and-More)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 16 of xxxHolic (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime & Manga Blog)

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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